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    The surname Velasco

    A Spanish surname, carried by 33,078 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex V420

    Velasco: #1,061 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#10,001Dubon Velasco #1,061, 33,078 people Velasco: #1,061 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Velasco #1,061, 33,078 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Velasco is more common than 99.3% of them.

    Origin

    Spanish origin

    A surname from Spanish

    One of 992 Spanish surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 33,078 people named Velasco in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,334 Americans. That is up 43% since 2000, when the Census counted 23,114.

    #1,061
    rank among US surnames
    33,078
    people in 2010
    11
    per 100,000 Americans
    +43.1%
    change since 2000 (was #1,411)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #1,052Lindsay33,2559,284
    #1,053Ritter33,2529,285
    #1,054Cooley33,2319,291
    #1,055Fritz33,2249,293
    #1,056Cooke33,2239,293
    #1,057Delaney33,2189,295
    #1,059Chaney33,2019,299

    Who is named Velasco

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    82% of people named Velasco identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 5.9% as white (not Hispanic).

    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 82%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
    • White (not Hispanic) 5.9%
    • Two or more races 0.7%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among Hispanic and Latino Americans.

    Famous Velascos

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Juan Velasco Alvarado
      50th President of Peru (1910-1977)
    • Alan Velasco
      Argentine association football player, born 2002
    • Edwin Velasco
      Association football player, born 1991
    • Omar Apollo
      American singer-songwriter (born 1997)

    Notable Velascos come mostly from Peru (1), Argentina (1) and Colombia (1).

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Velasco

    Velasco has the Soundex code V420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V420.

    Other Spanish surnames

    All 992 Spanish surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Velasco come from?
    Velasco is Spanish in origin.
    How common is the surname Velasco?
    33,078 people in the United States had the surname Velasco in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,334 Americans. It ranked 1,061st of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Velasco?
    In the 2010 Census, 82% of people named Velasco identified as Hispanic or Latino (any race), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Who is the most famous person named Velasco?
    Juan Velasco Alvarado, 50th President of Peru (1910-1977), followed by Alan Velasco.
    Where is the surname Velasco most common?
    Wikidata records people named Velasco in Peru, Argentina and Colombia and 1 other country.
    Is the surname Velasco getting more or less common?
    More common. 23,114 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 33,078 in 2010, up 43%.